Deputy Editor
Alex Cranz is the Deputy Editor at The Verge. Before that she spent five years overseeing the consumer tech coverage at Gizmodo and whacking gadgets with a machete. Her work has also appeared in Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Laptop Mag and she has trained at least two dogs to do fist bumps.
If you want to be technical about it, 8K was never especially viable on the PS5 to begin with, but when the system launched in 2020 TV makers were heavily pushing 8K as the next big thing and Sony wanted to futureproof its pricey platform.
With a PS5 Pro coming soon, and likely supporting more robust 8K, removing 8K claims off the PS5 box isn’t a surprise.
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Journalist Veronica de Souza had her phone stolen and immediately replaced it, but the thieves very much wanted her to unlock her old iPhone as it was effectively useless without her password.
So they asked her to unlock. Repeatedly.
Instead of being stuck in Teams or another Microsoft app the new translation feature will be “available across any video calling app, any entertainment app, translated locally across the NPU.”
That’s great because in the one demo we’ve seen so far it seemed to do a very impressive job of translating everything said in real time, no human translator required.
We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem
AI might be cool, but it’s also a big fat liar, and we should probably be talking about that more.
Streaming is cable now
Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever.
In a press release festooned with enough emoji to confuse it with a X post from a cryptobro, American’s major passenger train company announced it wants to figure out how to get high speed Wi-Fi blanketing its Northeast Corridor.
Companies that want to pitch it on ideas to improve the Wi-Fi can fill out a questionaire that requires Google Chrome but looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator.
Recently we suggested Boston Dynamics should enshroud its bots in some kind of hair. Today Boston Dynamics showed off a costume for its Spot robot that is festooned in blue, sparkly fur.
I’m sure its just a coincidence, but if not, thank you for listening Boston Dynamics. The bots are indeed less terrifying when they look like giant puppet dogs or some kind of adorable CGI render.